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by geesejuggler 1371 days ago
Cool! Looks promising!

Some UI/UX remarks...

- I would expect to find the 'new sheet' option near the sheet list (on top or on the bottom perhaps?).

- Creating a new sheet does not give an empty sheet (instead it presents the same info as in the preloaded example).

- How do you deal with different notations for numbers? Can I switch somewhere from #,###.## to #.###,##?

- Operators and currency is now displayed in gray, just like the comments. This hurts legibility more than it helps focus.

- When you can detect unit indicators, maybe allow users to click on them to change the unit to another (compatible variant). For example change kilometers to yards.

- Header and sub-header styles are quite similar, makes them hard to discern.
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geesejuggler 1371 days ago
- When editing the sheet name in the left panel, I could drag the sheet's location into it's text field.

- Would it be possible to edit the sheet title when clicking on the title itself (in the right panel)? Maybe show a pencil indicating this possibility.

- Local time format is not reflected in the sheet's modification time. What will happen if I share the sheet, will it reflect the latest modification time for all users or my latest modification / view? What I am trying to say is: is there a way for me to see if there are changes I have not seen?

- A little bit of hierarchy or tagging might help those with lots of sheets in the future.

- Exporting and printing options? :)

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jklp 1371 days ago
These are great suggestions! Some of them are on the road map but lots of good additions too.

> What I am trying to say is: is there a way for me to see if there are changes I have not seen

Currently I have a red "dot" on the cloud icon in the navbar when it's lost server sync - but there are certain cases where it doesn't show. I do need to spend more time on the multi-user aspect, though it's quite a large piece of work and unfortunately not a lot of users seem to use it.

I also think a hierarchy / folder structure would be super useful. Using it regularly I have an unwieldy large number of sheets and it's difficult to find older ones / search!

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